Assignment 5: Public Health Preparedness
Due Week 10 and worth 200 points

You have just been hired as a new Vice President of quality and safety for a full-service 600-bed government healthcare organization.  Within your first month on the job, the national security threat level has been raised to Imminent, which means there is a credible, specific, and impending terrorist threat against the United States, and your facility may be directly impacted. The Chief Executive Officer has requested an immediate six to eight-page report of your proposal for handling such a situation.

Note: You may create and /or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a 6-8 page paper in which you:

1. Examine the existing procedures related to at least four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services. Focus on the principal effects that these procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency.
2. Specify the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.
3. Detail three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.
4. Defend your position on the decision to accept health insurance during the emergency as a potential source of income for the facility. Provide support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position.
5. Analyze the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization.
6. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine information management and health care records and how the legal reporting requirements impact health care.
• Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
• Analyze the influence of health policy and health reform on healthcare access, quality, and cost in the U.S.
• Analyze tort reform and healthcare quality.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy, law, and ethics.
• Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.

Conduct a search in the University of Phoenix Library or on the Internet on just deserts.

Discuss, in 700 to1,050 words, the arguments in favor of and the arguments against just deserts.

Summarize the paper by stating your opinion on just deserts.

Include at least three citations and references supporting your opinion.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. 

Research Paper

Preparation

In preparation for your research, select an individual currently in a leadership position. The person must be responsible in some capacity for other employees, and the person must be an individual that can be researched.

Overview

In your overview of the leader, include

The leader’s name and title.His or her specific role or position and responsibilities.The name, industry, and description of the organization, including the culture of the organization.The length of time the leader has been in his or her current position.A brief history of the leader’s background and career path to his or her present day leadership position.

Your analysis should

Describe, assess, and analyze the person’s leadership style. Be sure to provide specific examples.Identify and describe three significant challenges they faced as a leader.Identify and describe their greatest achievement, to date, as a leader.Apply and correctly cite a minimum of three leadership concepts from the course to this leader’s roles and responsibilities within the organization, their relationships with others, etc. Use these concepts to help describe the person’s leadership style and assess what makes it effective or ineffective. Reflect on what you learned about leadership from your research.Reflect on the implications for your personal leadership style.Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper

Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined .Must include a title page with the following:

Title of paperStudent’s nameCourse name and numberDate submittedMust begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.Must use at least three scholarly sources, in addition to the text.Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the.Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined.

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